[Football] Match Thread : England Women vs USA Womens World Cup Semifinal

Mellotron

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• Jul 2, 2019

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English players losing their heads and giving away daft tackles. Heads might’ve gone.

 

Sheebo

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Springal said:

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Mellotron

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #203

drew said:

The penalty was given by the ref. VAR advised her and she reviewed it.

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I was talking about the borderline offside.

 

LamieRobertson

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #204

Weststander said:

I’m all for VAR, far better than the huge miscarriages of football justice every season and over the years.

BUT, in time it will temper the spontaneous goal celebrations of players, supporters and the bench. Replaced with a nervous wait to see if the video person finds any prior infringement.

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Currently there is always the flick of the eyes to the assistant to see if his/her flag us up...now gawd knows...might be going out for a drink on the concourse and come back in before any celebration

 

Mellotron

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #205

TottonSeagull said:

Unfortunately looks like the girls have inherited the normal England trait of bottling it when the pressure hits! Just like the men!

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Nonsense. US side are very good and we’ve run them close. Don’t think you understand what “bottling it” means.

 

LamieRobertson

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Mellotron said:

Nonsense. US side are very good and we’ve run them close. Don’t think you understand what “bottling it” means.

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Aye people reach for that word far too often without a clue of its meaning

 

DavidinSouthampton

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• Jul 2, 2019

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TottonSeagull said:

Unfortunately looks like the girls have inherited the normal England trait of bottling it when the pressure hits! Just like the men!

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We have had a goal disallowed and missed a penalty.

And if White hadn't been fouled for the penalty, I think it would have been 2-2.

I hate the Yanks.

 

TottonSeagull

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Weststander said:

Or the Yanks have been and still are by far the best team in the world, as everyone already knew, bar the naturally biased BBC and good old fashioned hype. No shame in narrowly losing to the very best.

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They are massively a better side, totally agree. Still think we have a mentality of failing when the pressure hits (mainly the men!)

 

TottonSeagull

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Mellotron said:

Nonsense. US side are very good and we’ve run them close. Don’t think you understand what “bottling it” means.

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Just like the men’s side!

 

TWOCHOICEStom

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• Jul 2, 2019

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"I know I'll have a shot in the 96th minute from 40 yards"

 

Sheebo

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Very unlucky & should be proud of their achievements. Well done ladies.

 

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Pogue Mahone

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DavidinSouthampton said:

We have had a goal disallowed and missed a penalty.

And if White hadn't been fouled for the penalty, I think it would have been 2-2.

I hate the Yanks.

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And all this in a game where England have basically been outclassed. To say that they have bottled it is disingenuous at best.

 

del strangefish

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #213

54 Years of Hurt

 

maltaseagull

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Never seen so many foul throws in a game.

 

PILTDOWN MAN

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Bloody yanks. Hate them

 

GT49er

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• Jul 2, 2019

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Kinky Gerbils said:

Already said they are not using it for pens and the current VAR handball rule.

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Typical - they get it the wrong way round! No problem with it being used to spot penalties where the ref missed the foul or off the ball infringement (not the stupid hand ball rule though) - it's offside they shouldn't use it for!

 

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #217

sheebo said:

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I don't think she deliberately fouled her, I think she clipped her legs running back.

 

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• Jul 2, 2019

• #218

Mellotron said:

Point taken - I guess that’s a different conversation, in that I feel offside should be the “daylight” rule, not this bollocks that someone is offside if they have a longer nose than their opponent and it’s being seen from a certain angle. It’s a complete nonsense.

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Spot on.

I've been saying that they need to reverse the rule, if any part of the body, excluding arms, is onside then you're onside.

 

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• Jul 2, 2019

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sheebo said:

Very unlucky & should be proud of their achievements. Well done ladies.

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Yep.

We would be in extra time now if no VAR

 

Weststander

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LamieRobertson said:

Currently there is always the flick of the eyes to the assistant to see if his/her flag us up...now gawd knows...might be going out for a drink and come back in before any celebration

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I make that glance for a lino’s flag, learnt after a lifetime of watching football, it’s the final check (my Albion mad son doesn’t remember to do just yet, leading to belated disappointments ).